Arthur de Laborde 10:29 am, March 25, 2023, modified at 10:31 am, March 25, 2023

This Saturday afternoon, the Horizons party is organizing its first congress at the Parc floral in Paris. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will be present. The opportunity to try to ease tensions between the two groups of the majority. Because if Edouard Philippe presents himself as an ally of Emmanuel Macron, disagreements remain between the two camps.

Elisabeth Borne will be alongside Edouard Philippe this Saturday afternoon for the first Horizons congress at the Parc floral in Paris. The Prime Minister will speak to the troops of her predecessor's party in Matignon which, a year and a half after its launch, claims 20,000 members, including 400 local elected officials. She is expected to call on the presidential camp to "stand together" while relations are very tense between Philippists and Macronists.

High tensions between the two camps

The torchon burns between the party of the president, Renaissance, and that of his former prime minister, Horizons. So much so that half a dozen Philippist deputies were considering abstaining on pension reform before the executive decided to use 49.3. They were going to defect at a crucial time, which deeply annoyed the president, says a heavyweight of Macronia.

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Beyond pensions, it has been several weeks that tensions have been high between the two components of the majority, between bills rejected on both sides and attacks exchanged through the media.

However, Horizons is a member of the majority. "We support the government and the prime minister," Edouard Philippe said this week in Le Figaro. The mayor of Le Havre also warned against any form of immobility and reached out to the Republicans for a government agreement.